IND W vs IRE W T20: Team India’s journey so far in the Women’s T20 World Cup has been spectacular. The Indian team sealed its place in the semi-finals with three wins in the group matches. In the match played on Monday, the Indian women’s cricket team defeated Ireland by 5 runs under the DLS rule. With the victory in this match, Team India became the second team from Group-B to enter the semi-finals. Apart from India, England also managed to reach the last four from this group. Team’s star batsman Smriti Mandhana had a big contribution in the victory against Ireland.
Smriti Mandhana played a stormy inning of 87 runs:
Team India won the toss and decided to bat first against Ireland. After this, both the opener batsmen Mandhana-Shefali gave a great start to the team. But Shafali Verma lost her wicket after slow batting. After this, Mandhana hit a flurry of fours and sixes at the other end. Mandhana, however, remained 13 runs away from a century in this match. Mandhana scored 87 runs while batting stormy in this match. Smriti hit 9 fours and three sixes in this innings of 56 balls. Due to this brilliant innings of Mandhana, Team India reached its score beyond 150 runs.
It was one of my toughest innings: Smriti Mandhana
India’s dashing opener Smriti Mandhana has described her match-winning innings of 87 runs against Ireland in the Women’s T20 World Cup match as one of the most difficult innings she has ever faced. After winning the match, he said that “this pitch was very difficult for the batsmen, initially they were not able to hit the shots with the right timing.” But after that I found my rhythm. The strong wind made the batting conditions very challenging. So it was one of the toughest innings of my career.
Here’s how the match went:
Team India has won the toss and decided to bat first. Mandhana scored 87 runs while batting stormy in this match. Smriti hit 9 fours and three sixes in this innings of 56 balls. Team India has set a target of 156 runs to win against Ireland. In reply, Ireland got off to a poor start. But after some time there was a disturbance of rain in the match. After this the match could not start. Due to this, Team India won by five runs under the Duckworth Lewis rule. Team India’s opener Mandhana was given the ‘Player of the Match’ award for her brilliant innings.
Source: newstrack.com”